Marilyn LaCourt, is a former marriage and family therapist with twenty-five years of clinical experience. She is the lead originator of the “Live and Let Live” Bully Prevention Program, based on sound scientific theory. She is the author of the novel “The Prize: A Novel About Bullies and Victims...”, based on the principles in her bully prevention program.

Recently she has released a Middle School Edition of “The Prize” for younger readers. LaCourt has published more than one hundred essays on parenting, relationships, mental health issues, current social issues, and just for fun in her bi-weekly newspaper column, “Through My Eyes”.
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"The Prize" Wins Glowing Reviews!

Marilyn LaCourt has written a fascinating retort to the pessimistic vision of human nature set forth in Golding's “Lord of the Flies”. “The Prize” makes a compelling and convincing case that the terms of the discussion have been wrong from the start. Selfishness and selflessness aren't mutually exclusive—they can and do co-exist, as the student's in LaCourt imagined experiment demonstrate. Left to ourselves, she asserts, we learn that cooperation is crucial to individual self-interest.

Imagine the powerful conversation in an English class that compares and contrasts Golding with the fully-articulated alternative view of human nature in The Prize! I might wish myself thirteen again just to be a part of it.

Dale McGowan, PhD
Editor/co-author: “Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion”
Author: “Calling Bernadette's Bluff”

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• A Matter of Life and Debt

(Link to article by Margaret Atwood of the New York Times that expresses the philosophy of "The Prize" eloquently.)

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The Ten Commandments

These ten commandments illustrate
the steps we can take to make
reciprocal behavior a benefit to our lives.

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"Reciprocal cooperation is the best survival strategy for our species."

Richard Dawkins – Evolutionary Biologist
Now in use by more than twenty schools nationwide!
"The Prize"
Middle School Edition
 The Prize Middle School Edition

Marilyn LaCourt's novel, "The Prize", has been revised to better suit the requirements and considerations of younger readers. Now educators and other professionals can use "The Prize" Middle School Editon, and it's related Study Guide, with complete confidence that it will be entirely appropriate for a Middle School audience.

Young readers' greatly enjoy reading the Middle School Edition of "The Prize". The novel entertains and holds the young readers interest while providing a basis for discussion of one of life's most important issues, our relationships with other people.

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